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grantcart

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25. Well if you are asking if I have discoverd the Secret of the Sufi

Reply to Rex (Reply #23)

Thu Dec 22, 2011, 04:52 AM

Dec 2011

I would answer you that I have not discovered it for myself but I know what it is that the Afghan Sufi seek.

I do manage to keep in touch fairly intimately in the area through my Muslim in law brother in law who is a translator for CNN in the area but I digress because you seem to be a much greater authority on all that is Afghan than I.

Let it simply be said that one can be the most basic neophyte on Afghan history and the mindset of the Afghan people to understand why the events that occured directly before September 11 undermine the wonderfully hubristic claim of the Taliban that they would hand over bin Laden, it rises to Captain Renault's astonishment that Rick's has illegal gambling.

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Bush rejected Taliban offers to hand over Bin Laden in October 2001 [View all] cowcommander Dec 2011 OP

If he had taken their offer it would have blown everything. Turbineguy Dec 2011 #1

Well, duh, I remember this, musette_sf Dec 2011 #2

They never had proof that Bin Laden was responsible for 9/11 sabrina 1 Dec 2011 #3

So why couldn't he be taken on the Embassy bombing charges? musette_sf Dec 2011 #4

True, but then there would have been no reason to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. sabrina 1 Dec 2011 #5

Oh yeah, that PNAC game plan. musette_sf Dec 2011 #8

If Gore won the presidency......911 wouldn't have happened thelordofhell Dec 2011 #6

yes to your subject line. MH1 Dec 2011 #12

He would have continued President Clinton's policy of bombing OBL thelordofhell Dec 2011 #21

When Al Gore read that 'Bin Laden tdetermined to Strike US' his response wouldn't have been... wizstars Dec 2011 #18

Yep. Think of how that one person (Al Gore) could have affected Kahuna Dec 2011 #26

Yes, the Afghan war was quite avoidable Bragi Dec 2011 #7

And why didn't Bu$hCo's crack National Security Advisor musette_sf Dec 2011 #10

Because Bush was hiding under his desk? Bragi Dec 2011 #14

Edit - got it now, it was Bu$hie who was hiding - musette_sf Dec 2011 #16

Pretty much, yeah Bragi Dec 2011 #17

The bu$h regime needed a boogie man liberal N proud Dec 2011 #9

R#2 & k N/R UTUSN Dec 2011 #11

Please, this silliness again. grantcart Dec 2011 #13

You're just wrong Bragi Dec 2011 #15

Well I was involved in resettling 10,000 Afghan refugees between 1980 and 1985 grantcart Dec 2011 #20

So you where there for a period of time Rex Dec 2011 #23

Well if you are asking if I have discoverd the Secret of the Sufi grantcart Dec 2011 #25

We were aware of this back then. I believe it Cleita Dec 2011 #19

Thom Hartmann used to rant about this off & on for 4-5 years. patrice Dec 2011 #22

Well of course he did, what was the point of that? Rex Dec 2011 #24